Birmingham City 2-1 Reading: result and report
Championship · Wednesday 17 March 2021
Result
Birmingham City 2-1 Reading
Championship · Wednesday 17 March 2021, 19:45 UTC · half-time 1-1
Birmingham City 2-1 Reading: match report
Birmingham City won against Reading 2-1 in the Championship on Wednesday 17 March 2021. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Lukas Jutkiewicz opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Birmingham City's goals came from Lukas Jutkiewicz (4') and Harlee Dean (71'). Reading scored through Y. Meïté (35').
Discipline: Birmingham City received 2 yellow cards; Reading received no yellow cards.
Going into the game Birmingham City were 21st on 35 points from 36 and Reading 6th on 61 points from 36. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 18th with 52 points, and Reading 7th with 70.
Birmingham City lined up in a 4-4-2 and Reading in a 4-3-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Harlee Dean of Birmingham City (8.0), ahead of Rekeem Harper (7.3).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Birmingham City wins, 2 draws and 3 for Reading.
Going into the match Birmingham City's last five read L-L-D-W-L and Reading's D-W-W-W-L.
Key events
- 4'Goal · Lukas Jutkiewicz
- 22'Yellow card · Maxime Colin
- 28'Yellow card · G. Gardner
- 35'Goal · Y. Meïté
- 71'Goal · Harlee Dean
Head-to-head
Team news
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Birmingham City line-up (4-4-2)
Neil Etheridge, Maxime Colin, M. Roberts, Harlee Dean, Kristian Pedersen, Alen Halilovic, Gary Gardner, Rekeem Harper, Jérémie Bela, Lukas Jutkiewicz, Scott Hogan
Reading line-up (4-3-1-2)
Rafael Cabral, Andy Yiadom, Tom Holmes, Liam Moore, Omar Richards, Alfa Semedo, Tom McIntyre, Josh Laurent, Michael Olise, Yakou Méïté, Lucas João